I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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There is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference there is, is very important. ~William James
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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He is not wise that is not wise for himself. ~English Proverb
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A human heart that matched what we think of as heart-shaped; a perfectly formed bright red thing with two halves of equal size; would be one that was horribly diseased. The origin of this stylized representation is somewhat obscure, but it probably appeared at the same time as St. Valentine's Day, about whose history there is much dispute. ~George Fetherling
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Friendship is not how long we have been together; not how much we have given or received; not how many times we have helped each other; it is how we value each other.
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ~Irish Proverb
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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